Jemima Wilkinson

From Academic Kids

As a young woman, she was beset by a debilitating illness which culminated in a fevered ecstatic trance during which she sermonized, and subsequent to which she collapsed and was declared dead. After having been already placed in a coffin she revived and knocked on the inside. This propelled her to claim that she was an incarnation of JesusChrist, and preach a regimen of strict abstinence, which she may have, according to some stories, only imperfectly observed herself.